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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. called planned start date.






2. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






3. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






4. Information gathering technique examines the project from the perspective of each projects strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - and threats to increase the breadth of the risks considered by risk management






5. Documents and presentations that provide organized and summarized work performance information - earned value management parameters and calculations - and analyses of project work progress and status






6. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






7. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






8. Auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used






9. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






10. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






11. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






12. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle






13. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






14. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship






15. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






16. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






17. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives






18. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






19. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






20. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






21. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






22. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






23. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






24. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives






25. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






26. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






27. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram






28. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






29. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






30. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






31. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






32. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






33. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






34. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






35. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






36. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence






37. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






38. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






39. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






40. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






41. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






42. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






43. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






44. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






45. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






46. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result






47. Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






48. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






49. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






50. A point that is not settled or is under discussion or over which there are opposing views or disagreements